new fic as promised
Prologue
2 weeks after the encounter of Insa-Elenor, Kei and Helena had graduated from the Hunters Guild as racaseals. Kei, now relatively skilled with guns, decided to learn the way of the blade as well, and thus was trained by her father. Helena on the other hand, had decided to stick with guns, and further improve her skills. WC took it upon herself to show Helena just what Ragol was like beyond the Guild's training.
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Chapter 1
It was early morning, Helena was laying in her bed. It was early morning, and she had just woken up, but decided to rest just a little longer. It felt good to lay in bed when you're tired, and just as she was about to drift back off into sleep...
~BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!~
The blaring alarm clock roused her from her peaceful state. The sudden shock of it made her jump, and she quickly rolled over and mashed the button to turn the alarm off. She looked at the time. "4:30am @_@ Why did I set my alarm so early O_o" she thought out loud as she stretched. She looked around her room. It was a mess. Clothes on the floor, dishes everywhere, various things scattered throughout the place- nal polish bottles, books, a phone, last night's clothes, hairpins- anything you could imagine a 17 year old girl owning you could probably find on her floor. In a neat little pile in the opposite corner of the room was her armour, some weapons, and her Preta (better known as "Ducky") mag, which was now awake. "Oh... now I remember..." she thought as she got out of bed. Today she was actually going down to Ragol for the first time. She thought she was ready. The Guild's training had brought her to clearance and strength level 54, and she had saved up her money and bought a decent varista at the store. The training simulations were a piece a cake, she thought going down wouldn't be too difficult. Helena wrapped herself in her housecoat, and headed to the bathroom. She had a quick shower, and looked at herself in the mirror as she dried her hair. Blue eyes, short blonde hair. The eyes she could understand, that came from her father. But how did blonde hair come to be? Nakago sure as hell didn't have blonde hair, and WC was well.... what could she say? Her mom was a droid with cosmetic and anatomical upgrades, and even then her hair was a dark-green/black colour. She shrugged, and went back to her room. She put on her undergarments, then a blue pair of shorts, and a blue shirt, both made of a highly impact/rip resistant material. Then came the yellow chest plate and upper le?g protectors, which kind of made it look like she was wearing a bathing suit and a short metal skirt with no front. She put on the yellow forearm covers, protective gloves, and upper arm/shoulder guards, before pulling up socks near her knees, made of the same material as the gloves. She slipped the blue, armored and custom painted shoes on her feet, and put the varista in her inventory. Slipping on the helmet-like hair cover, she got angry as her hand ran over the little hair piece at the top. Looking in a mirror, she looked like a french maid in yellow, which she hated, as it attracted a lot of stares, and a lot of comments she didn't want. Her mag had fallen back asleep on one of the pillows on her bed. "Hey" she softly spoke as she poked the mag. "Wake up, it's time to go." The mag looked at her, annoyed. "Quaaaaack -.-;;;" the mag wanted to sleep. "Quack yourself, we're going now O_o" she carried the mag for a few seconds before it flew behind her shoulder and followed her. Helena headed for the door, but before she got there, a pleasant aroma had filled the air, coming from the kitchen. ~gurgle~ She could actually hear her stomach rumbling, she hadn't eaten since lunch the previous day, and she was hungry. She went to the kitchen, to find her mom in her housecoat, cracking open some rappy eggs while some gulgus-gue bacon fried in the pan. She had no idea what a gulgus-gue is, but didn't want to find out. Tasted too good, didn't want to ruin it. "Mom, you're up early o_O" Normally WC slept in, she wondered why her mother was up early. "Well, your alarm clock woke me up, seeing as you're going somewhere thought I would make you breakfast.. Just where are you going anyway? O_o" WC asked as she stirred the rappy eggs with a spatula, scrambling them. "^-^; Thanks! Going down to Ragol for my first time today, wanted to get a head start before it got flooded with people ^-^;;" Helena replied as WC put the food, and a glass of synthetic orange juice in front of her. Beside the juice as a small cup, filled with a black liquid. "Aww... Mom, do I have to drink this stuff? It tastes horrible >_<" she whined as she pushed away the cup. "You may be mostly human, but you're half droid too ya know. If you don't drink it, well.. Let just say the consequences aren't too painless O_o Now you can drink it separate and wash the taste away with the juice, or I'll have to mix it in with your food =/" WC told Helena, placing a bowl filled with star atomizer fluid on the floor for Preta to drink. Oil mixed with food. Helena shuddered at the thought, and quickly drank the oil before chugging down half of the glass of juice to wash the horrible taste away. Half droid, half human, a crossbreed. Although some people enved her, it was also the bane of her life. It brought on a lot of mockery from others, and just made her feel like a freak in general. Plus she had to drink a small cup of that horrid oil every morning. Once in awhile, it made her feel sick to her stomach. On top of that, she was only born a few years ago. Being half droid had accelerated her growth to this point before it slowed back down to normal, and she felt she had missed out on a lot. War Child gave a good, long look at Helena. "Your first day... they seem to send them out younger and younger nowadays.. Next thing you now they'll be sending children O_o" Helena was only three and a half, but due to the accelerated growth, she never referred to her as a child. "You sure you're ready for this?" She asked, wondering just how much training was given for the new batch of hunters, rangers, and forces to have graduated so quickly. "Mom, stop worrying I'm level 54, and this varista I have should be able to do some damage. Boomas aren't that threatening o_O Besides, I passed the simulations in normal, hard, and very hard, this should be a cakewalk ^-^;" WC couldn't believe what she was hearing. Boomas where creatures created in the simulators for basic training, but were nowhere near what they would face once the people actually got down to the planet. For self-defense and other purposes on Pioneer 2, the) varista was a respectable weapon, but was nowhere near what would be needed down on Ragol. On top of that, the threat on Ragol was much more dangerous than a creature invented out of a scientist's mind. Why didn't the Guild teach them these things? "I can't believe this.." her mother muttered in an annoyed tone. "Eat, I'll be right back." she said as she walked towards the bathroom. WC quickly showered, dried, got dressed, and slipped on her armour, which hadn't been used in awhile. She whistled, and varaha was soon following her. WC quickly put some items into her inventory, and ran back into the kitchen. "Ahhhh this feels great! Its been awhile since I've worn this.." she smiled as she walked back into the kitchen. Helena turned around, to see her mother was ready to join her. "Um mom, what are you doing? It's illegal for you to go down now.. -_-;" she nagged. Typical teenager, didn't want to spend much time with her parents. "Oh I'd get in deep crap if I got caught, but that doesn't keep me from going down once in awhile anyway " she winked to Helena as she wrote a note to tell Naka that she would be out. Helena just looked at her oddly. Her mom wasn't always one to follow the rules, but this was overboard. "But what if you get caught, we can't have you going to jail.." she tried to persuade her into not coming. "The keywords in that is "get caught". As long as I don't get caught, we'll be fine! Not like they check ID or anything at the teleporter." WC argued back, then urged Helena to hurry up "Now come on, lets go. The longer we wait, the more awake the guards will be.". "I guess there's just no stopping you..." she sighed as she wiped her hands clean, and followed WC out the door. The two walked to the Hunters District, to find guards were asleep on the job. "Easy enough ^-^" WC chuckled as she walked through teleporter door, Helena following. When they were both in, Helena hit the button that would have the transporter send them to the first sector of the forest.
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